NAME

       puppet-cert - Manage certificates and requests

SYNOPSIS

       Standalone  certificate authority. Capable of generating certificates, but mostly used for
       signing certificate requests from puppet clients.

USAGE

       puppet  cert  action  [-h|--help]  [-V|--version]  [-d|--debug]  [-v|--verbose]  [--digest
       digest] [host]

DESCRIPTION

       Because  the  puppet  master  service defaults to not signing client certificate requests,
       this script is available for  signing  outstanding  requests.  It  can  be  used  to  list
       outstanding requests and then either sign them individually or sign all of them.

ACTIONS

       Every  action  except  ´list´  and  ´generate´  requires  a hostname to act on, unless the
       ´--all´ option is set.

       clean  Revoke a host´s certificate (if applicable) and remove all files  related  to  that
              host  from  puppet  cert´s storage. This is useful when rebuilding hosts, since new
              certificate signing requests will only be honored if puppet cert does  not  have  a
              copy  of  a signed certificate for that host. If ´--all´ is specified then all host
              certificates, both signed and unsigned, will be removed.

       fingerprint
              Print the DIGEST (defaults to  the  signing  algorithm)  fingerprint  of  a  host´s
              certificate.

       generate
              Generate  a certificate for a named client. A certificate/keypair will be generated
              for each client named on the command line.

       list   List outstanding certificate requests. If ´--all´ is specified, signed certificates
              are  also listed, prefixed by ´+´, and revoked or invalid certificates are prefixed
              by ´-´ (the verification outcome is printed in parenthesis).

       print  Print the full-text version of a host´s certificate.

       revoke Revoke the certificate of a client. The certificate can be specified either by  its
              serial  number (given as a hexadecimal number prefixed by ´0x´) or by its hostname.
              The certificate is revoked by adding it to the Certificate Revocation List given by
              the ´cacrl´ configuration option. Note that the puppet master needs to be restarted
              after revoking certificates.

       sign   Sign an outstanding certificate request.

       verify Verify the named certificate against the local CA certificate.

OPTIONS

       Note that any configuration parameter that´s valid in the configuration  file  is  also  a
       valid  long argument. For example, ´ssldir´ is a valid configuration parameter, so you can
       specify ´--ssldir directory´ as an argument.

       See          the          configuration          file           documentation           at
       http://docs.puppetlabs.com/references/stable/configuration.html   for  the  full  list  of
       acceptable parameters. A commented list of all configuration options can also be generated
       by running puppet cert with ´--genconfig´.

       --all  Operate  on all items. Currently only makes sense with the ´sign´, ´clean´, ´list´,
              and ´fingerprint´ actions.

       --digest
              Set the digest for fingerprinting (defaults to the the digest used when signing the
              cert). Valid values depends on your openssl and openssl ruby extension version.

       --debug
              Enable full debugging.

       --help Print this help message

       --verbose
              Enable verbosity.

       --version
              Print the puppet version number and exit.

EXAMPLE

       $ puppet cert list
       culain.madstop.com
       $ puppet cert sign culain.madstop.com

AUTHOR

       Luke Kanies

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (c) 2011 Puppet Labs, LLC Licensed under the Apache 2.0 License